CVE-2002-1160
The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.
Scoring
- CVSS base score
- 0
- EPSS probability
- 0.07%
- Published
- 2004-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-03-16
Affected products
- n/a n/a